On November 10, I posted on   how important sleep was for a longer and healthier life .  I Indicated I had a revelation which could well be the key to solving my sleep problem. This clue had to do with the fact that I had difficulty sleeping when my blood pressure was high.  So I searched the world-wide web and found numerous  studies linking poor sleep to high blood pressure .  Amazing, in that I've been taking these hypertension pills for decades and I never in the past connected high blood pressure with trouble sleeping.   From Harvard . Compared to women who slept seven to eight hours daily, those who slept six or five hours were 7% and 10% more likely to develop hypertension. Those women who had trouble falling or staying asleep were 14% to 28% more likely to have high blood pressure. Surely, can't be much different for males, too. But does lack of sleep cause high blood pressure, or vice versa?  From the  Mayo Clinic . Is it true that n...